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October 1, 2007
Article #18699
Volume 116, Issue 1
Hardware
 

... examines the issue of utilisation of UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 cores and attempts to determine whether performance would benefit from fewer or more virtual processors being assigned work
 


Using Performance Counters on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processors
Finding Core Load as a Means to Improving Performance


Darryl Gove explores the question of whether there is a performance benefit proportional to the number of processors assigned work in his article "Calculating Processor Utilisation From the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 Performance Counters." Gove's study involves using performance counters to estimate core load and identify potential areas for performance improvement. [...read more...]

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